Weekly: Domestic Help Abuse, Equality, Jobs and Upcoming releases!

Happy 2014 from the Ushahidi team. We're back from the holidays, and hope that all of you had a good break.

Deployment(s) of the week

This week, we recognise two deployments highlighting human rights violations and promotion of equality in the Middle East and in Asia.
Middle East Domestic Help Abuse Reporting allows concerned global citizens, human rights organizations, and abused migrants to report, document and share incidences of abuse of immigrant domestic workers by their employers in the Middle East.

Being LGBT in Asia is a joint analysis undertaken by UNDP and USAID together with grassroots LGBT organizations and community leaders to understand the challenges faced by LGBT people in Asia.

Apply for CGI U 2014!

Deadline is January 17th, 2014(TODAY), so, hurry while you still can ;)

Into the Code

Ushahidi v2.x

Towards the end of 2013, many of you had sent in a number of pull requests for bugs and features, and it's only fitting that a bug fix release of the platform is made. In this regard, Ushahidi v2.7.2 is set for release on 28th January, 2014. Here is a list of issues tagged under the 2.7.2 milestone. A code freeze of the develop branch will be in effect by tonight, January 17th 2014, to give way for testing. We'll share the testing site and doc within the course of next week